On Wed, 16 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > --- policy.sgml.orig Tue May 15 21:57:25 2001 > +++ policy.sgml Tue May 15 22:14:28 2001 > @@ -1024,6 +1024,38 @@ > </p> > </sect1> > > + <sect1> > + <heading>Tasks</heading> > + > + <p> > + The Debian install process allows the user to choose from > + a number of common tasks which a Debian system can be used to > + perform. Selecting a task with <prgn>tasksel</prgn> causes > + a set of packages that are useful in performing that task to be > + installed. > + </p> > + > + <p> > + This set of packages is all available packages which have the > + name of the selected task in the <tt>Task<tt> field of their > + control file. The format of this field is a list of tasks, > + separated by commas. > + </p> > + > + <p> > + You should not tag any packages as belonging to a task before > + this has been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and > + a consensus about doing that has been reached. > + </p> > + > + <p> > + For third parties (and historical reasons), tasksel also > + supports constructing tasks based on `task packages'. These are > + packages whose names begin with `task-'. Task packages should > + not be included in the Debian archive. > + </p> > + </sect1> > + > <sect1> > <heading>Maintainer scripts</heading> > > @@ -1282,8 +1309,8 @@ > <p> > Having a separate package allows one to install > the build-essential packages on a machine, as > - well as allowing other packages such as task > - packages to require installation of the > + well as allowing other packages and tasks > + to require installation of the > build-essential packages using the depends > relation. > </p> >
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